The Nutcracker (1993 Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Soundtrack]

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), David Zinman (Conductor), New York City Ballet Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: New York City Ballet Orchestra
• Conductor: David Zinman
• Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
• Audio CD (November 16, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000005J1P
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,014 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Nutcracker: Overture

2. The Nutcracker: Act I - Marie and Fritz awake - guest arrive

3. The Nutcracker: Act I - March

4. The Nutcracker: Act I - Father-Daughter Dance

5. The Nutcracker: Act I - Gifts- Heer Drosselmeiers arrival with his nephew-Toy dolles - Toy soldier

6. The Nutcracker: Act I - Heer drosselmeier gifts: Hobby horse, The nutcracker

7. The Nutcracker: Act I - Grandfather's Dance

8. The Nutcracker: Act I - Guest Depart

9. The Nutcracker: Act I - Marie's Dream

10. The Nutcracker: Act I - The Battle

11. The Nutcracker: Act I - Nutcracker and Marie Depart for the pine forest

12. The Nutcracker: Act I - Waltz of the snowflakes

13. The Nutcracker: Act II - Sugarplum Fairy

14. The Nutcracker: Act II - Hot Chocolate

15. The Nutcracker: Act II - Coffee

16. The Nutcracker: Act II - Tea

17. The Nutcracker: Act II - Candy cane

18. The Nutcracker: Act II - Marzipan

19. The Nutcracker: Act II - Mother ginger and her polichinelles

20. The Nutcracker: Act II - Waltz of the flowers

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: NUTCRACKER
Title: SOUNDTRACK
Street Release Date: 11/16/1993
Domestic
Genre: XMAS VOCAL

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Resplendant, November 15, 2004

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Philip A. Kraus (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nutcracker (1993 Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

Although one might dismiss this for being a soundtrack from video/movie presentation of The Nutcracker, it suffers not a bit in comparison with studio recordings of the ballet.

The NYC Ballet Orchestra has been playing this score for decades and their mastery of it under Zinman's baton is evident throughout. This is simply gorgeously played and rivals any other Nutcacker played by world class orchestras.

A benefit to the proceedings is the fact that Zinman is conducting an actual balletic performance and his zippy tempi add just the right amount of panache. It is a very transparent reading and makes Tchaikovsky's delicious orchestrations sound like a shiny new car! The dancer's tempi doesn't mean that there is a lack of "symphonic" presence. The recording engineers have done a beautiful job in capturing the majesty of the performance as well.

Only down side is there are a few cuts to fit the music on one CD. (Nutcracker is a bit longer than 80 minutes). The performance is so good, you can forgive the cuts. For those who must have the ballet note complete, pick this one up anyway. Musically it's well worth it.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Nutcracker CD Ever!, December 8, 1999

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Michelle Barisof (Encino, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nutcracker (1993 Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

This is my favorite holiday CD because it just doesn't have a few songs from the ballet. This CD is the whole ballet! I can actually imagine that I am there watching it! This is a must have for your holiday collection!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A buoyant, infectious reading, December 22, 2007

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Santa Fe Listener (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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Like the other reviewers, I was caught up in the infectious high spirits of this one-disc Nutcracker. It goes head to head with Gergiev's one-disc version on Philips. Zinman, like his counterpart with the Kirov, gets the New York City Ballet orchestra to move along, but where Gergiev feels impatient to me, Zinman feels exciting. As far as sonority goes, this isn't symphonic -- you're aware of listening to a somewhat spare pit orchestra. Plushness is traded off for agility, which is a good bargain. The sound, as often happens with movie soundtracks, is close-focused, detailed and bright, adding to the excitment.

As a non-fan of Zinman's, in the end I was surprised by how thoroughly enjoyable his reading is, and for such a habitually cool conductor, he is often warm here--listen to the ravishing Adagio Pas De deux at the end. I got much less pleasure from Svetlanov (Melodiya-RCA and Vedernikov (Penta Tone) despite their Russian credentials.